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Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter. He is one of the great geniuses of the late French Baroque and early Rococo periods.
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Johann Sebastian Bach died. Also, in chamber music, the string quartet (consists of 2 violins, viola, and cello) was popular. In New York, John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" was performed. -
Sebastiano Carezo invented the Spanish dance called "bolero" -
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with several periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations, pitting supporters and opponents of the system known as the Ancien Régime against each other.
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The Declaration of Independence of Argentina was a decision taken on Tuesday, July 9, 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán, by which it declared the formal rupture of the ties of political dependence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata with the Spanish monarchy. -
the foremost female composer of the 19th century, was born